HRD ministry drafting Innovation Universities
The freedom to appoint a foreign academician as a Vice Chancellor, to invite a promising student to join as faculty, to allow universities to devise their own merit- based admission process freed from the hidebound UGC or any other regulatory bodies — these are among the radical new clauses in the proposed path-breaking legislation, the Universities For Innovation Bill, 2010. The Bill, drafted by the HRD Ministry, will enable the setting up of 14 Innovation Universities of world-class standards in collaboration with global partners. Trying to balance autonomy with accountability, the..
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